History of Physics and Astronomy

This version sorts the important events by name. The lifetimes of people are highlighted in blue, important people are in bold blue.

Q

Quadrant electrometer 1770
Quantised Hall effect observed 1980
Quantum mechanics - Dirac 1930
Quantum theory - Planck 1900
Quark – hunting of the quark begun 1964
Quark theory of hadrons - Gell-Mann, Zweig 1964
Quartz crystal clock invented 1929
Quasar identified optically – Matthews and Sandage 1960
Quasars discovered 1962
Quebec captured by Wolfe 1759